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INDIA SECURITY GUARDS 4
(NYT45) NEW DELHI, India -- Feb. 23, 2009 -- INDIA-SECURITY-GUARDS-4 -- Security staff of the India Habitat Centre take part in a demonstration of how to disarm a terrorist with a gun, in New Delhi, India, Jan. 20, 2009. Security guards have been a sometimes sleepy presence in India for decades, but they have morphed from tea-fetchers at government offices and car-washers at homes of the wealthy to corporate India's de facto police force. India's police are so thinly spread and under-resourced that companies take care of most security themselves, opening their wallets to hire a local guard firm. (J. Adam Huggins/The New York Times)